11/11/2018 @ sample of 33cl bottle @ Vergeten Bieren tasting, Brouwerij Smisje shared with Koen and the brewer himself. 2009-version. Orange colour, small lacing. Nosse is sweet malty, ripe fruits. Taste malts, lots of sweetness, almost sugary, overripe fruits. Strangely aged...

11/11/2018 @ sample of 33cl bottle @ Vergeten Bieren tasting, Brouwerij Smisje shared with Koen and the brewer himself. 2009 version. Clear orange, big head, lots of carbonation still after all these years. Nose is sweet malty, honey. Taste is malts, honey, even some freshness. Nice.

11/11/2018 @ sample of 33cl bottle @ Vergeten Bieren tasting, Brouwerij Smisje shared with Koen and the brewer himself. 2010 version. Red brown with nice head. Nose and taste is dark malts, bit chocolate, hint of fruits. Damn still nice after all these years.

11/11/2018 @ sample of 33cl bottle @ Vergeten Bieren tasting, Brouwerij Smisje shared with Koen and the brewer himself. 2009 version. Red-brown colour small tanned lacing. Nose is old, malts, cellar. Taste is malts, bit chocolate and caramel, creamy feel, instead of fresh hops the beer felt spicy.

11/11/2018 @ sample of 33cl bottle @ Vergeten Bieren tasting, Brouwerij Smisje. 2009 version. Clear red colour, medium white head. Nose is malts, bit port, fruits. Taste is malts, bit honey, ripe fruits, bit creamy feel. Still very nice.

Ten year old vintage bottle of a liquorice-flavoured tripel the original (now defunct) Regenboog brewery of Johan Brandt made in 2008 for the 25th anniversary of Brugs Beertje, the famed pioneering beer pub in Bruges. Thanks to tderoeck for sharing the bottle. Snow white ‘head’, basically nothing but a thin ring which eventually disappears altogether, over a hazy peach-tinged golden blonde beer, turning misty and eventually dark and murky with sediment. Aroma obviously oxidized, but not in an unpleasant, rusty way: there is a less flattering chicken soup-like effect without a doubt, but at the same time some maderisation has apparently happened here as well, resulting in an old sweet sherry-ish aroma hovering above the beer’s basic features of banana, marmalade, white bread, clear liquorice, gari, powder sugar, sweetbread, dessert wine, pear. Sweet onset, banana and candied orange, marmalade-ish, candy apple, softly carbonated, slick and a bit sticky mouthfeel due to all those residual sugars which have no more hop structure to be balanced out; caramelly and light bready malt body with this honeyish sweetness on top, leading to a clearly sherry-ish and chicken soup-like oxidized finish in which a glow of peppery, ‘jenever’-like alcohol provides warmth and a firm dosis of liquorice a sweet spiciness different from the usual coriander seed. Old school Belgian spiced tripel, befitting the classic brown beer café atmosphere of Brugs Beertje, glad I tasted this one even if time very obviously had its effect on it

Imported from my RateBeer account as Brugs Beertje 25 (by Brouwerij De Regenboog):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.2/5

10/V/18 - 33cl bottle from a trade, shared with Alengrin @ Belgian ticks tasting (home) - BB: 2nd Q/2014 (wtf?) (2018-689) Very big thanks to Lee B. for the trade!

Pretty clear blond to orange beer, small aery irregular white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: bit oxidized, lots of orange peel, sweetish, some dried fruits. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: bit oxidized (no way!), sweetish, more oxidation, sweet, orange peel, alcohol. Aftertaste: sugary, sweet, alcohol, oxidized, some ripe banana, more oxidation, spicy, actually still pretty decent, given the old age on this bottle!

My bottle looks like the picture with Kerst not winter so this may be a bit old. Pour is a murky dirty river water brown. Aroma is dark fruit and fig pudding. Flavor is some dark fruit and lots of tootsie roll like sweetness. No alcohol is felt but it is getting a bit warmer in here. This is a big malty, dark fruit flavored strong ale. Not much spices are felt this is all about the dark fruit malt and sugar.